O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) Morning Glory with Black 1926 Oil on canvas, 91 x 75.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The morning glory rests against a black petunia, seen partially at lower right. O’Keeffe is best known for close-up flower subjects…
Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) La Sainte Famille sur les marches (The Holy Family on the Steps) 1648 Oil on canvas, 73.3 x 105.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Poussin placed small wax models in a box pierced with holes to study…
David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) Cupidon et Psyché (Cupid and Psyche) 1817 Oil on canvas, 184.2 x 241.6 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Jacques-Louis David included two butterflies in this painting: one above the slumbering Psyche and the other on the base…
Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Incoronazione della Vergine (Coronation of the Virgin) 1420s Tempera and gold on wood panel, 27 x 37.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Since its acquisition in 1944 the authorship of this painting has been updated from the…
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) Glaucus and Nydia 1867 Oil on wood panel, 39 x 64.3 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Alma-Tadema, one of the most popular Victorian painters, became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire.…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-Rémy) 1889 Oil on fabric, 73.4 x 91.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Van Gogh sometimes created what he called “repetitions,” in which he painted the same subject and…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) The White Symphony: Three Girls c.1868 Oil on millboard mounted on wood panel, 46.4 x 61.6 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1902.138. This…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Three Figures: Pink and Grey 1868–1878 Oil on canvas, 139.1 x 185.4 cm Tate Britain, London This picture derives from one of six oil sketches that Whistler produced in 1868 as part of a plan for…
Pollock, Jackson (1912-1956) Naked Man with Knife c.1938–1940 Oil on canvas, 127 × 91.4 cm Tate Britain, London Pollock was beginning to find his own individual style when he made this work. The startlingly violent image of three interlocking figures was…
(1883–1949) The artist’s works: Soldado herido 1930 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Orozco in Art: Modotti, Tina (1896-1942) Orozco Mural 1926 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Born November 23 1883 Ciudad Guzmán (Mexico) Died September 7 1949 México, DF (Mexico) Occupation Painter